Apparently he told them to get out of his country but then proceeded to shoot them. This is terrorism IMO.

Quote:An Olathe man who reportedly told two strangers — Garmin engineers originally from India — to “get out of my country” before he shot them in an Olathe bar was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in the death of one of the victims.

(24-02-2017 09:14 AM)tomilay Wrote: Apparently he told them to get out of his country but then proceeded to shoot them. This is terrorism IMO.

Quote:An Olathe man who reportedly told two strangers — Garmin engineers originally from India — to “get out of my country” before he shot them in an Olathe bar was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in the death of one of the victims.

If I was the Man I'd be imagining the kinda shit gonna get stirred up if I don't bring hate crime charges in one as obvious as this. At least someone jumped in. Just once I want to hear one of them say when the inevitable hero question comes up, "What do you mean? He had his sights on me next."

Old geezer that lost it lived in a nice comfy suburban home. I've seen this fever before, it's a standard body snatchers plot in sci-fi movies.

“get out of my country” Sounds like the words of a person with an extremely tenuous grasp on reality. What a fucking coward.
I would call it terrorism, too, but I wouldn't count on most media outlets classifying it as such.

If I was the Man I'd be imagining the kinda shit gonna get stirred up if I don't bring hate crime charges in one as obvious as this. At least someone jumped in. Just once I want to hear one of them say when the inevitable hero question comes up, "What do you mean? He had his sights on me next."

Old geezer that lost it lived in a nice comfy suburban home. I've seen this fever before, it's a standard body snatchers plot in sci-fi movies.

There have been suggestions that he thought they were Muslims or Middle Easterners. I don't think it matters actually. For most of these trumpists(safe bet he is one), Muslim is just another euphemism for these darkies.

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning ~ Werner Heisenberg

The irony of some - any - white 'Merican dude telling someone else to get out of HIS country is more than any normal human brain should be able to process without imploding on itself.

(Of course, I did have the dubious pleasure of hearing some white Argentinian dude bitch, with perfect conviction, about how them native tribes were fighting amongst themselves before the Spanish came to spread Christianity and smallpox (if you'll excuse the tautology here ), so nearly exterminating them wasn't such a big deal, really )

The irony of some - any - white 'Merican dude telling someone else to get out of HIS country is more than any normal human brain should be able to process without imploding on itself.

(Of course, I did have the dubious pleasure of hearing some white Argentinian dude bitch, with perfect conviction, about how them native tribes were fighting amongst themselves before the Spanish came to spread Christianity and smallpox (if you'll excuse the tautology here ), so nearly exterminating them wasn't such a big deal, really )

Oh we get the same arguments up here in defense of genocide as well by some white guys. "Well them thar Injuns, they was killin' each other before we came. Just cycle of life y'all." (And before anyone goes "don't exaggerate", you may not have lived in rural Pennsylvania...heh. One of my students there hadn't met any non-white, non-Christians, non-US citizens, until she went to university.)

(24-02-2017 10:29 AM)Shai Hulud Wrote: Oh we get the same arguments up here in defense of genocide as well by some white guys. "Well them thar Injuns, they was killin' each other before we came. Just cycle of life y'all." (And before anyone goes "don't exaggerate", you may not have lived in rural Pennsylvania...heh. One of my students there hadn't met any non-white, non-Christians, non-US citizens, until she went to university.)

This type of mindset is cultivated by a lack of exposure to other people. The remedy would be pretty simple, if people actually enjoyed exposing themselves to other world views.